The May 2018 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/06/24/wikimedia-research-newsletter-may-201…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2018/May
In this issue:
1 Understanding participation gaps: Why users don’t hear of Wikipedia, don’t visit it,
don’t know they can edit, and don’t contribute
2 Edit-a-thon participants are motivated by desire to change the views of society 3
"Evaluating Wikipedia as a self-learning resource for statistics: You know
they'll use it" 4 "Wikipedia as a Pedagogical Tool: Complicating Writing in
the Technical Writing Classroom" 5 "When the World Helps Teach Your Class: Using
Wikipedia to Teach Controversial Issues" 6 Briefly 6.1 Running the
numbers 6.2 Rhythms
*** 11 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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